John L. Rees

December 19, 2001|The Morning Call

John Lewis Rees, 91, of 3035 Greenleaf St., Allentown, died Saturday, Dec. 15, in Phoebe Home, Allentown. He was the husband of the late Evelyn (Hersh) Rees.

He was a lieutenant colonel in the Army. During World War II, he survived Pearl Harbor, served under General George S. Patton in an armored tank division of the Third Army and was a veteran of Falais Gap, the Battle of the Bulge, Bastogne, the push to the Rhine and the liberation of Buchenwald.

Born in Allentown, he was a son of the late Phillip S. and Minnie E. (Heimbach) Rees.